Imagine a material that cleans polluted water simply by being stirred, and that could one day help mend broken bones. That is ...

A team of researchers in India has transformed an everyday plastic into the heart of a working proton battery, and the trick ...

[UPDATED 4/28: with information from FDA. Altered sentences in italics.] A radioactive isotope of strontium has been detected in American milk for the first time since Japan's nuclear disaster—in a ...

A KRISS team remeasured strontium atomic transition frequency after 88 years and proposed a new global standard. Using a ...

An international research team has reported the first experimental investigation of a nuclear physics reaction essential for understanding how the element strontium is produced in stars—specifically ...

Scientists have a set a new record in accurate timekeeping, creating an atomic clock that won’t lose or gain a second in 15 billion years — a time span greater than the estimated age of the Universe.

Tracing the regional origin of everything from milk to invasive bugs is now possible thanks to a University of Otago project. A strontium isotope map developed by Ph.D. Candidate Robyn Kramer, and ...

Scientists at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) and Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS) in the US have helped resolve a key uncertainty in the nuclear physics reaction that helps ...

For the past six years, Michael Schnur and his family have been drinking bottled water. Already concerned that pollutants from the coal ash landfill near his home in Sheboygan County might be leaching ...